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Flying Focus Video Collective
PMB 248 • 3439 NE Sandy Bv • Portland, OR 97232
(503) 239-7456 • (503) 321- 5051 •
ffvc@flyingfocus.orgFlying Focus Celebrates 25 Years
In 2016 Flying Focus Video Collective turns 25 years old!
• Our founding members got together during the "Gulf War" in January, 1991.
• In August of 1991, we formally incorporated as Flying Focus.
• November 18, 2016 marks exactly 25 years since our weekly half-hour showcase,
the
Flying Focus Video Bus premiered.
Celebrate by watching all 25 of our anniversary retrospective shows August 8-Nov 25!
Help us celebrate our anniversary:
On this page:
- NEW! 12/16 Retrospective Shows Streaming!
- 25 Years of Flying Focus Video Clips
- Portland Community Media recognizes Flying Focus
- George HW Bush Protest 1991-25 Years Later
- An article from 1991 about our first show
- Playback schedule of our anniversary marathon!
December, 2016->
Retrospective Shows Streaming!
To celebrate our 25th anniversary, Flying Focus has begun posting all 25 of its anniversary
shows online!
As of January 2019, watch:
One Year Busiversary (1991-92)
Two Year Busiversary (1992-93)
Third Busiversary (1993-94)
Fourth Busiversary (1994-95)
Fifth Busiversary (1995-96)
Sixth Busiversary (1996-97)
Seventh Busiversary (1997-98)
Eighth Busiversary (1998-99)
Ninth Busiversary (1999-2000)
Tenth Busiversary (2000-2001)
Eleventh Busiversary (2001-02)
Twelfth Busiversary (2002-03)
Thirteenth Busiversary (2003-04)
Fourteenth Busiversary (2004-05)
Fifteenth Busiversary (2005-06)
Sixteenth Busiversary (2006-07)
Seventeenth Busiversary (2007-08)
Eighteenth Busiversary (2008-09)
Nineteenth Busiversary (2009-2010)
Twentieth Busiversary (2010-11)
Twenty-First Busiversary
(2011-12)
Twenty-Second Busiversary
(2012-13)
Twenty-Third Busiversary
(2013-14)
Twenty-Fourth Busiversary
(2014-15)
Twenty-Fifth Busiversary
(2015-16)
Twenty-Sixth Busiversary
(2016-17)
NEW!
Twenty-Seventh Busiversary
(2017-18)
November, 2016
25 Years of Flying Focus Video Clips
As part of the 25th Busiversary, Flying Focus
assembled clips from its first 24 years into a 6.5 minute video. It opens part 1 of the 2-part
restrospective show. You can watch it here:
or on our YouTube clips
page.
August, 2016
Portland Community Media Recognizes Flying Focus!
Images of Michelle Alexander, Phyllis Bennis and Erin Brockovich from episodes of the Flying Focus Video Bus
In its August 2016 newsletter, Portland Community Media featured an "interview" with Flying Focus about our milestone anniversary. PCM has been our home for our entire existence, we couldn't have done this without them!
September 19, 1991->May 4, 2016
George HW Bush Protest 1991-25 Years Later
The Willamette Week remembered the protest against President George H.W. Bush which
took place in Sept. 1991 and
which Flying Focus covered live on the air. (WW was predicting a large protest about
Donald Trump in May 7, but he never finalized plans for a Portland area rally.) The article recounts the
history of
Portland being dubbed "Little Beirut." The last section is about the GHWBush protest we
covered live on cable access and our struggle to keep the police from using our footage to target
people for arrest. At the end of the link you can see an excerpt from our October 1991 show
in which FFVC member Dan Handelman gives an update on a man who was arrested for inciting a
riot, with that charge downgraded to standing on TriMet property without boarding a train. The clip
is from our
second show, but the first after forming as Flying Focus, known as "Che's Lounge/'P' is
for Perception."
We've also posted an article that ran in October, 1991 in Willamette Week describing the struggle to keep our tapes from being used to track down protestors.
Week of Feb 11, 1991-> Feb 11, 2016:
An article from 1991 about our first show
Check out this article from the Oregonian about our first program, "Peace Action Network." The show started in March 1991 as a project of the Promotion and Production Committee of the Coalition Against US Military Intervention in the Middle East (CAUSMIME), the group that eventually became Flying Focus.
NEW! July 2016
Celebrate 25 Years of Flying Focus 1991-2016 by Watching All 25 of our Anniversary
Shows!
Starting August 8, Portland Comcast and CenturyLink subscribers will be able to see all 24 past "Busiversaries" over a 14 week period.
|
Busiversary Retrospective ??? 25 Years of Shows |
and Wednesday, August 3 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
and Wednesday, August 17 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
and Wednesday, August 17 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
and Wednesday, August 24 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
and Wednesday, September 7 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
and Wednesday, September 14 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
and Wednesday, September 21 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
and Wednesday, September 28 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
| #17-18 (2007-2009) on Monday, October 3 at
2:00 PM, Channel 22 (Comcast) & 8002 (CenturyLink); and Wednesday, October 5 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
| #19-20 (2009-2011) on Monday, October 10 at
2:00 PM, Channel 22 (Comcast) & 8002 (CenturyLink); and Wednesday, October 12 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
| #21-22 (2011-2013) on Monday, October 17 at
2:00 PM, Channel 22 (Comcast) & 8002 (CenturyLink); and Wednesday, October 19 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
| #23 (2013-2014) on Monday, October 24 at 2:00
PM, Channel 22 (Comcast) & 8002 (CenturyLink); and Wednesday, October 26 at 11:30 PM (after the Video Bus), Ch. 23 (Comcast)/Ch. 8003 (CenturyLink) |
| #24 (2014-2015) weeks of October 31 and
November 7 on the Video Bus |
| #25 NEW! (2015-2016) weeks of
November 14 and November 21 on the Video Bus |
(A full schedule is listed in the table at the bottom of the page).
For more information, or particularly if you want to get involved by volunteering for or donating anything for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary (videotapes, DVD-RAMs, or other items from the wish list) please get in touch with us at 503-239-7456 or ffvc@flyingfocus.org.
Playback Schedule for Flying Focus' 25th Anniversary: